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Not Cure.
Levi P. Brockway, S. Second Ave,
Anoka, Minn., says: "After lying
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HE editor was
"getting up" his
Christinas issue,
or, to be more ex
act, he was think
ing of getting it
up. and as he
lolled lazily In his
hammock and
watched the shad
ows of the July
clouds chasing
each other over
the distant bills he
wondered whether
he could not strike
a new note in
Christmas issues
something that
would appeal to
jzr n 2ery man, woman,
."ST'' onil Vii!,l In tho.
& "h land and cause
them to tumble over each other in
their eagerness to buy his magazine.
The shadows lengthened In the
grass, the hum of the insects lost the
help of the bees, who had ceased
their work and gone to rest, and
frcm the house within came the
tinkle of a silvery bell that told him
supper was served.
But he did not move, and at last
his wife came to the door and. fan
ning her face with her apron, said:
"John, everything is getting hot from
standing. Do come in."
He bounded from his hammock.
"1 have it, Mary, dear! I have it!
1 will have a Christmas issue that
will leave all others in the rear. It
will be the first of its kind, and I
fully expect our sales to be increased
a hundred-fold."
And then he told her of his scheme.
"We will bring out the magazine
on Christmas Eve, and from beginning
to end there will not be a single men
tion of Christmas except on the
cover."
"Well, but people will be expect
ing Christmas stuff."
"What! Expecting? Yes; they will
be expecting it You're right; and
that's where we'll win. They won't
get it. They -will have had Christ
mas issues from early in November,
and when they realize that they can
spend the 25th of December reading
a magazine that has absolutely no
hint of an overworked holiday in it
they will buy it and send it to their
friends all over the world. Fold me
to your bosom, little wife, for I have
at last hit on a money-maker!"
His little wffe folded him to her
A neighbor had been lingering be
tween lire and death, and the attend
ing physician had just given his vague
and guarded opinion, when old Lim
Jucklln looked up from the box where
he was sitting in front of the grocery
store and remarked: "Every man
that gets money without stealin' it
earns it, I reckon; but 1 don't know
of anybody that comes nearer earnin'
It twice over than the country doc-!
tor. He has to put forth all the skill
he has and then must lie to keep hope
alive. And hope Is the best medicine
ever discovered, for it not only aids
the sick, but helps the well to bear
their burdens.
"I recollect once when old Dock
Haines practiced in this neighborhood.
long before the most of you were
born. Satchett Smith was taken down
with some sort of new-fangled fever
that was prowlin' around the neigh
borhood, and kept on a gettin' worse.
Finally, one day, his neighbors came
in to be present at his death, and
they were a-settin about a-waitin' for
the dreaded end when Dock he came
in spoke cheerfully to everybody,
joked with a gal about her beau and
jollied a widow about an old fellow
that was seen hangin' around on
the outskirts of her good graces. Well,
the wife of the sick man she comes in.
just able to walk, she was so grief
stricken, and puts her arms about one
of the women-and begins to cry; and
well she might, for Smith he was a
good husband and never found fault
with a thing that was or was not on
tho table at meal time. AH of the
women folks thought it was about
time to cry, and they cried and the
men hemmed and hawed and Smitl?
he lay there a fetchin' of his breath
the best he could under the circum
stances. Parson Biglow went up to
the bed ' and asked Smith how he
felt, and Smith said he wan't feelin
at his best, and no one in the room
disputed the assertion. But Dock he
demurred to the proceeding; he
'lowed that It wan't meet and it wan't
flttin' to cross-question the patient in
sich a manner. Biglow turned about
and says, says he: I am a preacher,
sir., and I have a right to talk to him
about his soul.'
" 'Yes. says Dock, 'but not till after
I get through with his body.'
"Biglow he was up in matters of re
tort, and he says, says he: 'And when
you do get through with his body his
soul will be gone.' and Smith he lay
there actin' like he couldn't find an
other breath. Then Dock he straight
ened up, and we all knowed that some
thin extraordinary was about to hap
pen. If anybody believes strong
enough that Smith here is goin' to
die he's got a chance to win some
easy money,' said he. "Twenty dollars
ain't picked up every minute and I'll
Let 20 in gold and put up the money
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boccm. but it was such warm weath
er that he asked her to unfold him.
and she unfolded him right away, be
cause the way they preserved har
mony in the family was by minding
each other at once, always.
Next day he went to the hot city
and told his associates of his plan
and they were aghast.
"What!" said they. "Nothing
about little tots and their stockings?
Not a word as to the origin of the
Christmas legend? Nothing about the
genial, jovial old saint? No Dickens
story rehashed? No peace and good
will by the yard? Not a yule log nor
a reference to mistletoe and the old
maid aunt? Why, Puffer, you're
daffy!"
But if Puffer was daffy he was also
editor, and what he said went.
Oh, how happy the typesetters were
when they learned that they would
have to spell Christmas but once!
And if they were happy, think how
more than happy the poets were who
were told that no stuff would be ac
cepted that hinted at the glad season,
and that stockings were barred, what
ever their pattern.
And the 'sketch and story writers.
They came to Mr. Puffer'wlth tears
in their eyes and said to him: "You
have saved our lives. Now we can
writs with enthusiasm. We had be
gun to hate Santa Clans and we
hated to hate him, for he is cuch a
nice old fellow; but we have had to
ring so many changes on him that the
sight of a snowy beard and ruddy
cheeks makes us pessimistic."
And the artists. Really it was hard
to stop the artists from drawing chim
neys and reindeers. The announce
ment that a Christmas number wa3
en tiie stocks had always meant so
many prancing doer and so many
barefooted, nightgowned tots, and
more than one artist turned in pic
tures of midsummer sheep warming
their fleeces at yule logs instead of
gamboling on sunny hillsides.
And the public. Well, it was even as
Mr. Puffer had prophesied. At first
they would .not believe that there
was such a magazine, and so they
bousht it to make sure. And it was
full of stories about every day in the
year but Christmas, and the cover
h-id clover and clematis on lt and
little naked boys in swimming under
a summer sky. Oh, it was a great
success, and for seven days the print
ing of it went on, and when New
Year's day came Mr. Puffer got a six
right now that Smith ain't goin to
die this season. Any takers?'
"The preacher says: 'Yes, under
takers,' which showed to us that along
with his knowledge of divine things
he was sorter sarcastic. A discussion
might have followed, but up spoke Slip
Cuckner. He was the bettin'ist man
probably that ever lived, and if a
chance to bet ever got by him it was
in the night, when he was in bed and
asleep Well, he speke up and says
that he will take the bet and we all
Icoked at him. but not with any par
ticular admiration, for he was bettin'
on a sure thing. He fished up his
money outen the seams of his clothes
and his wife she scolded him under
her breath, but he shook his head
at her and proceeded with the busi
ress In hand. 'Here's my money,'
says he, 'and I just need twenty more
to complete the purchase of a yoke of
steers that I've had my eye on for
some time.' He looked at Dock and so
did we all, for we couldn't see why
ho would throw away his $20. But
he didn't wince. He took out his
gold piece and 'Squire Patterson held
the stakes, and after the excitement
of puttin' up the money the women
returned to their cryln and things
were putty much as they were before
that is, except with Smith him
self. "Now, Smith, he had traveled up
and down the Mississippi river in his
younger days, a bettin' of everything
he had. and it had always held a sort
of charm for him. He had sorter sided
off with the church, but he couldn't
forget the excitement of a bet, and.
while he didn't indulge durlrt his later
life, he felt the thrill of it and would
hang 'round for hours a beggin' the
boys not to bet on hosses, but stayin
till the last race was won. And now
he was interested. lt waB the first
thing that had claimed his entire mind
since the fever came along and spread
its heat over him. 'He'll be a walkin'
about in less than two weeks.' say-3
Dock, and Slip Buckner begins to
search himself. 'Somewhere about
me I've got twenty more that says
he won't.' he declared, and Dock he
sorter winced at this, but he was
game, and without sayln a word he
outs with another gold piece and
Buckner he covered it with silver and
paper, and the women folks 'lowed
that the world was gettin closer and
closer akin to old Satan every day.
"For a long time Dock he set there
swearin' that he was sure to win, and
finally he says to Smith that he will
give him half the money. And Smith
laughed yes, sir, laughed, not a loud
haw-haw, but a chuckle, and the wom
en cried afresh, for they thought that
Smith was goin into eternity
a Iaughin. which to them was a
mighty bad promise for the future.
Well, we set about till evenin, and I
months' leave of absence and went
with his wife to travel in foreign
lands, and when they returned they
found out that every editor in Amer
ica had taken a leaf out of Mr. Puf
fer's book and was going to bring
out a Christmas-less Christmas num
ber. So Mr. Puffer laid low and said
nothing to his brother editors, but,
being now a very rich man, he in
vited a large number of writers and
artists up to his summer place, and
told them to write when they pleased
and draw when they pleased, but to
try to bend their energies to the
making up of the only Christmas mag
azine in America.
And taking it that way in the mid
dle of summer in a delightful place,
they found they could think of Christ
mas without distaste, and they set
to and planned the very best Christmas
number that had ever been thought of.
And now the public prints con
tained no mention of Christmas, and
people -began to sort of yearn for the;
pretty stories and the wintry yule-'
leggy pictures, and by the time Christ
mas day came they were positively
hungry for them.
And that is why Mr. Puffer's Christ
mas issue, full of Christmas stories
and pictures, beat all records. Its
circulation was only five or six short
of sixteen millions.
,And Mr. Puffer made so much mon
ey that he ind his wife have been
traveling ever isnee, and they always
spend Christmas in the city where
St. Nicholas was born, and they hang
up their stockings and go through the
motions and emotions, because there's
a good deal in that Christmas spirit
if you don't get tof much of it.
(Copyright, by James Pott & Cc
Slaughter of Wild Swans.
Gunners on the lower Niagara
river almost annihilated a flock of
wild swans that visited that section,
late Sunday afternoon.
Most of the swans were brought
down with fowling pieces as theyt
hovered over the lower river, but not
a few of them were taken alive. The
birds that settled into the water
seemed to get caught in the ice and
eddies and could not rise and the hunt
ers went after them in boats.
The capture of swans at that point
is not an unusual occurrence, though
such a big catch as that of Sunday
has never before been recorded here.
Niagara Falls Correspondence Buf
falo News.
TOPOGIOrS
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when the candles were lighted the fire
on the hearth began to sing a low,
sweet song, imitatin' the sound of
somebody walkin' through snow, and
we heard Smith breathin' in a nat
ural sort of way and we looked at him
and he was asleep. Well, to make
a long story short, he was better the
next mornin', and within the time set
he was walkin' about, and Dock not
only gave him half the money, but all
he had won. And Buckner well.
some time afterwards, when Smith
was a candidate for jestice of the
peace, Buck he 'lows. 'I ain't goin' to
vote for him. He done me a bad
turn once beat me out of a lot of
money.' Dock told me that he ex
pected to lose the money, but it was
one chance in a thousand that he
might save Smith by excitin' his mind.
"Yes, sir," the old man added after
a few moments of meditation, "a doc
tor must know human nature as well
as medicine, and this knowledge mixed
with medicine is what makes one doc
tor better than another. I've known
'em to git out of their beds the cold
est nights that ever blowed and ride
ten miles to doctor a man they knowed
wan't a goin to pay a cent. It takes
great strength always to handle weak
ness; it take3 a god-like patience to
deal with the fretful and not be
warped over to the side of continual
peevishness, and whenever I hear a
doctor a-laughin' I always rejoice with
him. Science in medicine travels
slow, it is true, for each human body
is an dividual machine, and every
mornin has a new way to go wrong.
And I have known men to be such
liars that they wouldn't tell a doctor
the truth as to how they felt, fearin'
that they were givin' him some little
advantage. The average doctor has
a good sense of humor and has stored
up some of the oldest jokes I ever
heard, and this is in the direct line of
his usefulness, for a sick man can't
understand a new joke as well as an
old one.
"The saddest time for the sick nan
is not when the doctor is comin' to
see him, but the time when the doc
tor's bill begins to pay its visits. It
ought not to be, but a doctor's bill
is a mighty hard thing to pay. It is j
line payin ior a January overcoat in
July. When old Alf Bug was gettin'
well just about the time the doctor
pronounced him out of danger he
said to him: 'Doctor, you have been
mighty faithful, and I thank you, but
I'm sorry that I can't pay you nothin'.
If I bad died you would have got your
money, for my life is insured, but as
it is I can't give you a cent.
"The doctor looked at him a minute
and says: 'Bug, I think you need just
one more dose of medicine.'
"'Much obleeged to you,' replied
Bug, 'but I've got a plenty."
.(CqpyrlKht, by Opie Read.)
Opie Read
TABLE APPOINTMENTS
Damask table cloths and napkins
which have become too worn for their
legitimate uses cnould be cut into
different sized pieces for doilies, tray
cloths, and to use around corn and
other things served in a napkin.
As no housekeeper can have too
many or varied sizes of these table
accessories, even the worst worn
cloths can be made to yield a little
longer service.
Cut 'some of the pieces oval, others
round, some square and. still others
oblong. The finer and better pieces
may be worked with a scallop in white
mercerized cotton. This adds much
to their appearance, and is pleasant
pick-up work for odd minutes.
The scallops can be drawn on with
the edge of a spool, the size varied by
the size of spool selected. For the
quite small doilies to be used under
finger bowls or on biscuit plates, the
scallop should be drawn with the edge
of a hundred spool of cotton and the
inner line should be kept rather shal
low. Tray cloths may have a longer
scallop or they can be worked with a
grouped scallop composed of three
small ones.
This is such quick work that it well
repays the trouble. The ever-diminishing
supply of such things, which every
housekeeper must contend with, can
be overcome by small expense and
little work.
The more worn pieces should be
hemmed either by hand or machine.
While they should not be used on the
table, even for ordinary occasions,
they will be found most convenient
for wrapping up different articles of
food, or, if large enough, can serve as
bureau covers in the nursery, or can
be used as compresses in cases of ill
ness. Tea-table cloths are nowadays by
no means the squares of damask or
linen of almost conventional plainness
which they were a few years ago. So
much drawn-thread work or embroid
ery is introduced that they have come
to be regarded as one of the most cost
ly items of the linen chest, and are far
too precious to be included in the
weekly washing list, and handed over
to the ministrations of the ordinary
laundress. Washing of this descrip
tion is always best undertaken by
some one who can give the matter in
dividual attention, in default of which
fine drawn threads are apt to part
company with the linen foundation,
and the design ironed so carelessly
as to flatten the pattern and ruin the
appearance of the raised embroidery.
Before attempting to wash the tea
cloth it should be looked over care
fully to see if it is stained in any way.
Tea stains If recent can usually be
eliminated by holding the cloth over a
basin and pouring boiling water on the
stain from arm's length. If obstinate
ly fast, it is a good plan to spread a
little butter over the spot before try
ing the effect of the boiling water,
while lemon juice or sour milk and
salt have each a satisfactory result in
the case of ink spots.
If a piece of fine lawn or muslin is
laid over motifs or bands of openwork,
the point of the iron will be prevented
from catching in the delicate network
of threads, while the treble thickness
of flannel raises the pattern in the
case of Irish hand embroidery. Lace
edgings should never be pressed
without interposing a folded cloth be
tween them and the iron, or they are
apt to gain a glazed appearance, and
in lieu of this, each scallop should be
stretched out gently with the fingers,
and the loops pulled out with a hair
,pln or a flat bodkin. To flatten the
edging, the teacloth should be re
versed, a damp flannel laid over the
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The little watch stand, of which we give a sketch, can be made from one
of those little wedged-shape cardboard boxes that are generally used for pack
ing wedding-cake. Should, however, one of these boxes not be handy, then
any small box of a suitable size can be cut down on one side until it is the
required shape. The box' should be filled with sand or anything of weight,
so that it will stand firmly in position, and it may then be entirely covered
uith velvet. On the upjer part, a large dress-hook is sewn, on which the
watch can be hung as shown.
WHEN THE HAIR IS OILY.
White Castile or Tar Soap the Best for
the Shampoo.
For oily hair white castile soap and
tar soap are good shampoos, but the
green surgeon's soap, which is so
much sold and 'used nowadays, is rath
er too strong for ordinary hair, and
should be diluted before using. If you
wish to make a shampoo which you
can keep on hand you can boil some
castile soap by shaving it down and
boiling it to a jelly, which you can
keep and use as you need it. For a
heavy head of hair about an ounce
of this jelly is enough for a shampoo,
and for less heavy hair a half ounce
is sufficient.
The application of tonic to the hair
is always a good thing if some reliable
authority is consulted as to the best
one to use, but too much tonic is bad
for the hair, and as a result it should be
applied not oftener than once a week
unless the hair is falling out. The
present fashion of roughing tip and
puffing the hair is very apt to split it.
and the only way to prevent this and
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top, and the back of a moderately hot
iron in lieu of the point employed.
Pongee silk in the natural shade
makes beautiful centerpieces, cush
ions, piano scarfs, or mats for library
table. These embroidered with flow
ers or conventional designs in dull
pink. blue, green, or violet are far
handsomer than linen and can bs
washed without injury.
When there is a small family, and
consequently a dining table of modest
dimensions, it is a mistake to have
cloths that are more than two yards
square. For ordinary use these should
be hemstitched by hand machine
work is an abomination upon napery.
of any quality and be decorated in
one corner with the embroidered
initial of the hostess. The large nap
kins should be of a matching quality
and pattern and similarly finished,
and for the buffet, serving table and
the larger of the waitress" trays there
should be corresponding oblongs.
Mexican and Japanese drawnwork
are much in demand as a finishing for
napery, and, done by specialists on the
finest of Irish linen, is at its best in
floral effects. In fans and in Maltese
crosses. These same pattterns are
used to decorate buffet scarfs, center
pieces and doilies, and may quite
properly be used in connection with
simpler sets of table 'linen.
For an informal luncheon a damask
cloth has a wide band of conventional
ized pomegranates with green leaves
the fruit shading from palest lemon
to deep orange. The centerpiece, a
dainty crystal vase encircled by grape
fruits and mandarins, wreathed in
leaves, among which are seen a be
wildering mass" of brilliant nastur
tiums. The china with a design of
nasturtiums is also charmingly in
keeping with the rest. Vogue.
Every housekeeper of every class
and color takes wondrous pride in her
assortment of napery and loses no op
portunity to add to that store. Al
though we hear much of the vast
quantities of linen possessed by the
women of an older day, popularly sup
posed to be more industrious as well
as more home-staying than those of
the present period of feminine clubs
and suffrage-seeking, still the average
housekeeper of to-day devotes consid
erable labor to her table linen.
Most women realize that napefy is
co3tly and none more so than that
which is sold "at a bargain." There
fore, it is far wiser for any young
housekeeper to purchase a half dozen
really good cloths of pure linen and
of modest pattern rather than twice
that number that are of fashionable
design and partially cotton. Any
showy. Imitation damask is a mistake,
for it will reveal Its quality after a
first washing.
Filigree is not admitted to the
decorated scheme of parasols.
Some smart princess gowns simu
late the tunic by means of a tuck.
White pique suits are trimmed on
the skirt with bands of colored linen.
Smart colored effects are this year
ob'tained in the dotted swisses.
The sleeveless coat in silk, lace em
broidered net. or what one will is to
be a picturesque feature.
STAND
keep it in good condition is to have it
singed and clipped at the end3.
Waistcoat Decorations.
Since all the spring coats are being
made with waistcoats, it is necessary
to embroider them in a great many
novel and attractive ways. A favor
ite material for the waistcoat is a sort
of fine canvas, which may be easily
embroidered in solid flowers. It is not
necessary to work a very large design
or to shape it in any way; merely an
embroidered band down the front of
the vest is sufficient, and it makes
these little affairs very attractive.
A Stiff Lingerie Collar.
When wearing one of those soft
collars, sold as a turn-over collar,
which is too fine to stand any starch,
it is a very good idea to cut the band
from a man's collar and fasten it about
the neck, tying over it a ribbon to
which is attached the soft collar. In
mis way a trim enect w:u De mam-
tainea. ana tne nexiry linen is so sua
mas no amount ci lemmme wear ana t
tear will break it down.
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Michigan Man to Be Temporary Chair
man of Republican Convention.
. Chicago. Julius Caesar Burrows,
who is to be temporary chairman of
the Republican national convention,
has represented the state of Michigan
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Senator J. C. Burrows.
in the United States senate since 1895,
when he was elected to succeed Fran
cis B. Stockbridge. who died three
years before his term expired. Mr.
Burrows' home is at Kalamazoo. He
was an officer in the union army and
was appointed supervisor of internal
revenue for Michigan and Wisconsin
in 18S7. He was elected a representa
tive to the Forty-third, Forty-sixth and
Forty-seventh congresses and ap
pointed solicitor cf the government
treasury department by President Ar
thur in 1S84, but declined the office.
He was in the Forty-ninth. Fiftieth.
Fifty-first. Fifty-second. Fifty-third and
Fifty-fourth congresses and was twice
elected speaker pro tern, of the house
of representatives during the Fifty
first congress. His present term of
service in the senate will expire
March 3. 1911.
TO HUNT FOR THE POLE AGAIN.
Commander Peary Seeking
for Another Trip.
Money
Washington. Commander Robert
E. Peary, who has gone to New York
Commander R.
after a conference with President
Kouscvelt. to get, if possible, the $50.
000 necessary to take him on his ninth
expedition in search of the north pole,
has been in the service of the United
States navy since 1SS1. In his last
trip. 1S0S to 1902, he attained S4 de
grees 17 minutes north and named the
most northerly land in the world.
Cape Morris K. Jesup. Commander
Peary was born at Creston. Pa., in
1S50 and was graduated from Bow
doin college. He entered the United
States navy as a civil engineer and
has been employed in the engineer
corps when not on his arctic expedi
tions. His discoveries have gained
for him a number of medals from
scientific societies.
Could Not Pass the Examination.
A dilapidated specimen of a man
stopped a Kansas City merchant on
the street one morning and asked for
a ca3h donation. "Mister," he said in
a plaintive voice, "I hain't had any
work to do for more'n a month, an' I'm
powerful hard up."
"Been out of work for a month?"
said the merchant. "What is your oc
cupation?" "I work in the packing-house when
I can get anything to do."
"In the killing department?"
"No, sir; in the cutting-room."
"Then you can tell me, perhaps, how
many teeth a cow has on her upper
jaw."
"Why er no, sir. I never no
ticed." "That's too bad." said the merchant,
putting his hand in his pocket. "The
dime I am going to give you would
have been a dollar if you hadn't failed
in your examination." Youth's Com
panion. Bakery Talk.
"Here." said the grocer's boy, "is
the cake of soap you ordered."
"All right."
"Here's the loaf sugar."
"Yes."
"Here's the roll of butter."
"Put It down."
"Well, hustle up and take
out of the basket. Do you
them
think
I m going to layer round here all
the time?" Detroit Free Press.
Not in Favor of College.
Mrs. William H. Taft is not in favor
of the college education for her daugh
ter, but will not oppose, her if she
wishes to take it. Mrs. Taft says that
she thinks for the work that a woman
will do in the world in her own home
an academic education is sufficient.
Her daughter will graduate this year
a: a preparatory school at Bryn Mawr
and will be fitted to enter the college
if the cares to.
First Essential.
Nan What is the first thing you
have to ,earn ,n piayins goif?
Fan The accent. Chicago Tribune.
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for five months in a
hospital I was dis
charged as 'incur
able, and given only
six months to live.
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times fell uncon
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the kidney secretions were badly dis
ordered. I was completely worn out
and discouraged when I began using
Doan's Kidney Pills, but they went
right to the cause of the trouble and
did their work well. I have been
feeling well ever since."
Sold by all dealers. ,50 cents a box.
Foster-MIlburn Co.. Buffalo. N. Y.
UNUSUALLY BRILLIANT.
Lady Your little brother seems to
be bright for his age. doesn't he?
Little Maggie Well. I should say
so. Why. he knows the name of al
most every player in the big leagues.
TORTURED SIX MONTHS
By Terrible Itching Eczema Baby's
Suffering Was Terrible Soon
Entirely Cured by Cuticura.
"Eczema appeared on my son's face.
We went to a doctor who treated him
for three months. Then he was so bad
that bis face and head were nothing
but one sore and his ears looked as if
they were going to fall off, so we tried
another doctor for four months, tho
baby never getting any better. His
hand and legs had big sores on them
and the poor little fellow suffered so
terribly that he could not sleep. After
he had suffered six months we tried
a set of the Cuticura Remedies and
the first treatment let him sleep and
rest well; In one week the sores were
gone and in two months he had a clear
face. Now he 13 two years and has
never had eczema again. Mrs. Louis
Leek, R. F. D. 3, San Antonio, Tex.,
Apr. 15, 1907."
Curious Indian Custom.
The following curious custom !s re
corded by J. Owen Dorsey in his
monograph on the sociology of the
Omaha Indians:
"In the spring when the grass comes
up there is a council or tribal assem
bly held to which a feast Is given by
the head of the Hanga geno. After
they decide that planting time has
come and at command of the Hanga
man a. crier is sent through the vil
lages. He wears a robe with hair out
side and cries as he goes. 'They do,
indeed, say that you will dig the
ground! Hallo! He carries sacred
corn, which lias been shelled and to
each household he gives two or three
grains, which are mixed with the seed
corn of the household."
After this it Is lawful for the peo
ple to dig up the soil and plant their
crops.
Little Lesson for Rufus.
Uncle Erastus had been polishing
his musket for half an hour; at last
he gave it a final love-pat. and turned
to his grandson. "Chile," he said,
"does you see dat bottle about 30
yards over dere?"
"Shore I does," Rufus agreed.
Thu old man threw up the musket
and balanced It rather shakily.
"Whang!" it bellowed. "Now does you
see dat bottle?" the old man de
manded. "Yes. I does, granddad."
"I's powerful glad to hear dat, Rufe,"
the old man said, calmly. "I's been
afeard from de way you sorted taters
lately dat your eyesight was failing
but hit ain't. You's good fo' several
yeah.3 yit, Rufus."
Useless Society.
Mr3. Jones often declared that she
enjoyed a little chat with their fish
dealer because he was a man of such
original ideas, but one day, says Lon
don Opinion, she returned from mar
ket somewhat puzzled by his remarks.
"I said to him. just in the way of
conversation," declared Mrs. Jones,
"that I bad heard that a man becomes
like that with which he most associ
ates. "'That's ridiculous. Mrs. Jones! he
answered. 'I've been a fishmonger
all my life and can't swim a yard.' "
BUILT UP
Right Food Gives Strength and Brain
Power.
The natural elements of wheat and
barley, including the phosphate of pot
ash, are found in Grape-Nuts, and that
Is why persons who are run down from
improper food pick up rapidly on
Grape-Nuts.
"My system was run down by. exces
sive night work." writes a N. Y. man.
"in spite of a liberal supply of ordi
nary food.
"After using Grape-Nuts I noticed
Improvement at once, in strength, and
nerve and brain power.
"This food seemed to lift' me up and
stay with me for better exertion, with
less fatigue. My weight increased 20
lbs. with vigor and comfort in propor
tion. "When traveling I always carry tho
food with me to insure having it"
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Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Well
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